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Professor Sven Beckert

2013

The Modern United States

Themes in American History

Adams, Henry. The Education of Henry Adams (1918)

Bender, Thomas. A Nation Among Nations: America's Place in World History (2006)

Douglass, Frederick. My Bondage, My Freedom (1855)

DuBois, W. E. B. The Souls of Black Folk (1903)

Foner, Eric. The Story of American Freedom (1998)

Hartz, Louis. The Liberal Tradition in America (1955)

Hofstadter, Richard. The American Political Tradition (1948)

Jackson, Helen Hunt. A Century of Dishonor (1881)

Keyssar, Alexander. The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States (2000)

Moore, Barrington. Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy (1966)

Lasch, Christopher. The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics (1991)

Tocqueville, Alexis de, Democracy in America (1840)

Twelve Southerners, I'll Take My Stand: The South and the Agrarian Tradition (1930)

Jacksonian Democracy and Antebellum Politics and Economy

Ashworth, John. Slavery, Capitalism, and Politics in the Antebellum Republic. Vol 2: The Coming of the Civil War, 1850-1861 (2007)

Delay, Brian. War of a Thousand Deserts: Indian Raids and the U.S.-Mexican War (2008)

DuBois, Ellen Carol. Feminism and Suffrage: The Emergence of an Independent Women's Movement in America, 1848-1869

Einhorn, Robin L. Property Rules: Political Economy in Chicago, 1833-1872 (1991)

Hietala, Thomas R. Manifest Design: American Exceptionalism and Empire (1985)

Holt, Thomas. The Fate of Their Country: Politicians, Slavery Extension, and the Coming of the Civil War (2004)

‘’ ‘’ The Political Crisis of the 1850s (1978)

Sinha, Manisha. The Counterrevolution of Slavery: Politics and Ideology in Antebellum South Carolina (2000)

Stauffer, John. The Black Hearts of Men: Radical Abolitionists and the Transformation of Race (2001)

Stewart, James Brewer. Holy Warriors: The Abolitionists and American Slavery (1976)

Wallace, Anthony F. C. The Long, Bitter Trail: Andrew Jackson and the Indians (1993)

Watson, Harry L. Liberty and Power: The Politics of Jacksonian America (1990)

Labor and Work in Proprietary Capitalism

Dawley, Alan. Class and Community: The Industrial Revolution in Lynn (1976)

Foner, Philip. History of the Labor Movement in the United States, volume 1: From Colonial Times to the Founding of the American Federation of Labor (1947)

Gutman, Herbert. “Work, Culture, and Society in Industrializing America” in Working Culture and Society (1976)

Licht, Walter. Industrializing America: The Nineteenth Century

Montgomery, David. The Fall of the House of Labor: The Workplace, the State, and Labor Activism, 1864-1925

'' '' Workers' Control in America: Studies in the History of Work, Technology, and Labor Struggles (1979)

Scranton, Philip. Proprietary Capitalism: The Textile Manufacture at Philadelphia, 1780-1885 (2003)

The Civil War, Emancipation and Reconstruction

Ayers, Edward L. In the Presence of Mine Enemies: War in the Heart of America, 1859-1863 (2003)

Beckert, Sven. “Emancipation and Empire: Reconstructing the Worldwide Web of Cotton Production in the Age of the American Civil War” American Historical Review (2004)

Bensel, Richard Franklin. Yankee Leviathan: The Origins of Central State Authority in America, 1859-1877 (1990)

Berlin, Ira, Barbara Fields, Steven F. Miller, Joseph P. Reidy, and Leslie S. Rowland. Slaves No More: Three Essays on Emancipation and the Civil War (1992)

Bernstein, Iver. The New York City Draft Riots: Their Significance in American Society

Blight, David W. Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory (2001)

DuBois, W. E. B. John Brown (1909)

‘’ ‘’ Black Reconstruction in America  (1935)

Faust, Drew Gilpin. Mother's of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War (1996)

'' '' This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War (2008)

Fields, Barbara J. Slavery and Freedom on the Middle Ground: Maryland during the Nineteenth Century (1985)

Foner, Eric. Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party before the Civil

War (1970)

'' '' Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 (1988)

'' '' Politics and Ideology in the Age of the Civil War (1980)

'' '' Nothing But Freedom: Emancipation and Its Legacy (1983)

Glymph, Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household (2008)

Hunter, Tera W. To 'Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women's Lives and Labors after the Civil War (1997)

Huston, James L. Calculating the Value of the Union: Slavery, Property Rights, and the Economic Origins of the Civil War (2003)

Jung, Moon-Ho. Coolies and Cane: Race, Labor, and Sugar in the Age of Emancipation (2006)

Lawson, Melinda. Patriot Fires: Forging a New American Nationalism in the Civil War North (2002)

Litwack, Leon F. Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery (1979)

Levine, Bruce. Half Slave and Half Free: The Roots of the Civil War (1992)

McCurry, Stephanie. Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South (2010)

Montgomery, David. Beyond Equality: Labor and the Radical Republicans, 1862-1872 (1967)

Oates, Stephen B. The Approaching Fury: Voices of the Storm, 1820-1861 (1997)

Potter, David M. The Impending Crisis, 1848-1861 (1976).

Scott, Rebecca.  Slave Emancipation in Cuba: The Transition to Free Labor (1985)

‘’ ‘’ Degrees of Freedom: Louisiana and Cuba after Slavery (2005)

Schoen, Brian. The Fragile Fabric of Union: Cotton, Federal Politics, and the Global Origins of the Civil War (2009)

Woodward, C. Vann. ed. Mary Chestnut's Civil War (1981)

Political Economy in the Gilded Age

Beckert, Sven. The Monied Metropolis: New York City and the Consolidation of the American Bourgeoisie (2001).

Billings, Dwight. B. Jr. Planters and the Making of a 'New South' (1979)

Cronon, William. Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West (1991)

Goodwyn, Lawrence. The Populist Moment: A Short History of the Agrarian Revolt in America (1978)

Gordon, Linda. The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction (1999)

Hahn, Steven. The Roots of Southern Populism: Yeoman Farmers and the Transformation of the Georgia Upcountry, 1850-1890 (1983)

'' '' A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration (2003)

Hamalainen, Pekka. The Commanche Empire (2008)

Jacobson, Matthew Frye. Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race (1998)

Katz, Michael B. Class, Bureaucracy and Schools: The Illusion of Educational Change in America (1971)

Katznelson, Ira. City Trenches: Urban Politics and the Patterning of Class in the United States (1981)

Kelley, D. G. “‘We are not What We Seem’: Rethinking Black Working-Class Opposition in the Jim Crow South” Journal of American History 80 (1993)

Lamoreaux, Naomi. Insider Lending: Banks, Personal Connections, and Economic Development in Industrial New England (1996)

Mihm, Stephen. A Nation of Counterfeiters: Capitalists, Con Men, and the Making of the United States (2007)

Montgomery, David. Citizen Worker: The Experience of Workers in the United States with Democracy and the Free Market during the Nineteenth Century (1993)

Peck, Gunther. Re-inventing Free Labor: Padrones and Immigrant Workers in the American West, 1880-1930 (2000)

Rodgers, Daniel T. The Work Ethic in Industrial America (1974)

Scranton, Philip. Endless Novelty: Speciality Production and American Industrialization (2000)

Trachtenberg, Alan. The Incorporation of America: Culture and Society in the Gilded Age (1982)

West, Elliot. Contested Plains: Indians, Goldseekers, and the Rush to Colorado (1998)

White, Richard. Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America (2011)

Woodward, C. Vann. Origins of the New South, 1877-1913 (1951)

Imperialism and American Power Abroad

Beckert, Sven. “From Tuskegee to Togo: The Problem of Freedom in the Empire of Cotton” Journal of American History (2005)

Cumings, Bruce. Dominion from Sea to Sea: Pacific Ascendancy and American Power (2009)

Grandin, Greg. Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City (2009)

Hoganson, Kristin L. Fighting for American Manhood: How Gender Politics Provoked the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars (1998)

Jacobson, Matthew Frye. Barbarian Virtues: The United States Encounters Foreign Peoples at Home and Abroad, 1876-1917 (2000)

Kramer, Paul A. The Blood of Government: Race, Empire, the United States, and the Philippines (2006)

Lenin, V. I. Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism (1917)

Rosenberg, Emily S. Financial Missionaries to the World: The Politics and Culture of Dollar Diplomacy, 1900-1930 (2003)

Stephanson, Anders. Manifest Destiny: American Expansion and the Empire of Right (1995)

Veeser, Cyrus.  A World Safe for Capitalism: Dollar Diplomacy and America’s Rise to Global Power (2007)

The Rise of Corporate Capitalism

Berle, Adolph A. and Gardiner C. Means. The Modern Corporation and Private Property (1932)

Chandler, Alfred. D. Jr. The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business (1977)

Cohen, Andrew Wender. The Racketeer's Progress: Chicago and the Struggle for the Modern American Economy, 1900-1940 (2004)

Lamoreaux, Naomi. The Great Merger Movement in American Business, 1895-1904 (1988)

Roy, William Socializing Capital: The Rise of the Large Industrial Corporation in America (1996)

Veblen, Thorstein. Absentee Ownership, Business Enterprise in Recent Times: The Case of America (1923)

Zunz, Olivier. Making America Corporate, 1870-1920 (1990)

Professionals, Science and the Practices of the New Middle Class

Bledstein, Burton. The Culture of Professionalism: The Middle Class and the Development of Higher Education (1978)

Haskell, Thomas L. The Emergence of Professional Social Science: The American Social Science Association and the Nineteenth Century Crisis of Authority (1977)

Mills, C. Wright. White Collar (1951)

O'Connor, Alice. Poverty Knowledge: Social Science, Social Policy, and the Poor in Twentieth-Century U.S. History (2001)

Poovey, Mary. A History of the Modern Fact: Problems of Knowledge in the Sciences of Wealth and Society (1998)

The Rise of Organized Labor

Andrews, Thomas G. Killing for Coal: America's Deadliest Labor War (2008)

Arneson, Waterfront Workers of New Orleans: Race, Class and Politics (1994)

Cameron, Ardis. Radicals of the Worst Sort: Laboring Women in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1860-1912 (1993)

Cobble, Dororthy Sue. The Other Women's Movement: Workplace Justice and Social Rights in Modern America (2004)

Brody, David. Steelworkers in America: The Non-Union Era (1969)

Denning, Michael. The Cultural Front: The Laboring of American Culture in the Twentieth Century (1997)

Dubofsky, Melvyn. We Shall Be All: A History of the Industrial Workers of the World (1969)

Fink, Leon. Workingmen’s Democracy: The Knights of Labor and American Politics (1983)

Foner, Eric. “Why is There No Socialism in the United States?” History Workshop (1984)

Fraser, Steve. Labor Will Rule: Sidney Hillman and the Rise of American Labor (1993)

Halpern, Rick. Down on the Killing Floor: Black and White Workers in Chicago’s Packinghouses, 1904-1950 (1997)

Healey, Dorothy Ray and Maurice Isserman. California Red: A Life in the American Communist Party (1990)

Honey, Michael K. Southern Labor and Black Civil Rights (1993)

Kelley, Robin D. G. Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists during the Great Depression (1990)

Lichtenstein, Nelson. Labor’s War at Home: The CIO in World War II (1982)

‘’ ‘’ Walter Reuther: The Most Dangerous Man in Detroit (1997)

McCartin, Joseph A. Labor's Great War: The Struggle for Industrial Democracy and the Origins of Modern American Labor Relations, 1912-1921 (1997)

Nelson, Bruce. Workers on the Waterfront: Seamen, Longshoremen, and Unionism in the 1930s (1990)

Oestreicher, Richard. “Urban Working-Class Political Behavior and Theories of American Electoral Politics” The Journal of American History 74 (1988)

Rosenzweig, Roy. Eight Hours for What We Will: Workers and Leisure in an Industrial City, 1870-1920 (1983)

Salvatore, Nick. Eugene V. Debs: Citizen and Socialist (1982)

Silver, Beverly J. Forces of Labor: Workers’ Movements and Globalization Since 1870 (2003)

Zieger, Robert, The CIO, 1935-1955

Consumption, Consumer Culture and the Rise of Modern Capitalism

Cohen, Lizabeth. A Consumers’ Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America (2003)

Frank, Thomas. The Conquest of Cool: Business Culture, Counterculture, and the Rise of Hip Consumerism (1998)

Leach, William. Land of Desire: Merchants, Power and the Rise of a New American Culture (1993)

Lears, Jackson. Fables of Abundance: A Cultural History of Advertising in America (1994)

Livingston, James. Pragmatism and the Political Economy of Cultural Revolution, 1850-1940 (1994)

Labor and Work in Corporate Capitalism

Big Industry, New Unionism

Braverman, Harry. Labor and Monopoly Capitalism: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century

Bruce, Nelson. Divided We Stand: American Workers and the Struggle for Black Equality (2001)

Edwards, Richards. Contested Terrain: the Transformation of the American Workplace in the Twentieth Century

Alternative Trajectories

Higbie, Frank Tobias. Indispensable Outcasts: Hobo Workers and Community in the American Midwest, 1880-1930 (2003)

Kirby, Jack Temple. Rural Worlds Lost: The American South, 1920-1960 (1987)

Ngai, Mae. Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America (2004)

Register, Cheri. Packinghouse Daughter: A Memoir (2000)

Sacks, Karen Brokdin and Dorothy Remy, eds. My Troubles are Going to Have Trouble with Me: Everyday Trials and Triumphs of Women Workers (1984)

Worster, Donald. Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s (1979)

Progressivism and the Rise of the Welfare State

Berkowitz, Edward and Kim McQuaid, Creating the Welfare State: The Political Economy of Twentieth-Century Reform (1988)

Brinkley, Alan. The End of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War (1995)

Cullather, Nick. “The Foreign Policy of the Calorie” The American Historical Review (2007)

Cohen, Lizabeth. Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago

Dumenil, Lynn. Modern Temper: American Culture and Society in the 1920s (1995)

Esping-Anderson, Gøsta. The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism (1990)

Fraser, Steve and Gary Gerstle. The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order, 1930-1980 (1989)

Gordon, Linda. Pittied but not Entitled: Single Mothers and the History of Welfare (1995)

Hofstadter, Richard. The Age of Reform (1955).

Johnston, Robert D. The Radical Middle Class: Populist Democracy and the Question of Capitalism in Progressive Era Portland, Oregon (2003)

Katz, Michael B. In the Shadow of the Poorhouse: A Social History of Welfare in America (1986)

Katznelson, Ira. When Affirmative Action was White: An Untold History of Racial Ineqaulity in Twentieth Century America (2005)

Kessler-Harris, Alice. In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men, and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in 20th Century America

Hayes, Samuel, “Politics of Municipal Reform in the Progressive Era”

Klein, Jennifer. For All These Rights: Business, Labor, and the Shaping of America's Public-Private Welfare State (2003)

Kolko, Gabriel. The Triumph of Conservatism: A Reinterpretation of American History, 1900-1916 (1963)

Piven, Frances Fox and Richard A. Cloward. Regulating the Poor: The Functions of Public Welfare (1971)

Quadagno, Jill. The Color of Welfare: How Racism Undermined the War on Poverty (1994)

Rauchway, “The High Cost of Living in the Progressive Economy” Journal of American History (2001)

Rodgers, Daniel T. Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age (1998)

Sklar, Martin J. The Corporate Reconstruction of American Capitalism: The Market, the Law, and Politics (1988)

Skocpol, Theda. Protecting Soldiers and Mothers: The Political Origins of Social Policy in the United States (1992)

Skowronek, Stephen, Building A New American State: The Expansion of National Administrative Capacities (1982)

Swenson, Peter A. Capitalists Against Markets: The Making of Labor Markets and Welfare States in the United States and Sweden (2002)

Wall, Wendy L. Inventing the ‘American Way’: The Politics of Consensus From the New Deal to the Civil Rights Movement (2008)

Wiebe, Robert H. The Search for Order, 1877-1920 (1967)

Weinstein, James. Corporate Ideal in the Liberal State

Racist Domination and the Long Civil Rights Movement

Brilliant, Mark. The Color of America has Changed: How Racial Diversity Shaped Civil Rights Reform in California, 1941-1978 (2010)

Dittmer, John. Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi (1995)

Gilmore, Glenda. Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919-1950 (2008)

Isserman, Maurice and Michael Kazin. America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s (2000)

Marable, Manning. Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention (2011)

Payne, Charles M. I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle (1995)

Rosengarten, Theodore. All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw (1974)

Sugrue, Thomas J. The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit (1996)

Woodward, C. Vann. The Strange Career of Jim Crow (1955)

The New Right, Neoliberalism and Capital Ascendant

Cowie, Jefferson. Stayin' Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class (2010)

Fones-Wolf, Elisabeth. Selling Free Enterprise: The Business Assault on Labor and Liberalism, 1945-60 (1995)

McGirr, Lisa. Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right (2001)

Mirowski, Philip and Dieter Plehwe. The Road from Mon Pelerin: The Making of the Neoliberal Thought Collective (2009)

Phillips-Fein, Kim. Invisible Hands: The Businesmen's Crusade Against the New Deal (2009)

Rosenblum, Jonathan D. Copper Crucible. How the Arizona Miners' Strike of 1983 Recast Labor-Management Relations in America (1995)

The Recent Past: New Movements, New Directions

Brenner, Robert.  The Boom and the Bubble: The US in the World Economy (2002)

Dumenil, Gerard and Dominique Levy. The Crisis of Neoliberalism (2011)

Lamont, Michele. The Dignity of Working Men: Morality and the Boundaries of Race, Class, and Immigration (2000)

Leach, William. Country of Exiles: The Destruction of Place in American Life (1999)

Milkman, Ruth. L.A. Story: Immigrant Workers and the Future of the U.S. Labor Movement (2004)

Moreton, Bethany. To Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise (2009)

Rodgers, Daniel T. The Age of Fracture (2011)

Rome, Adam. The Bulldozer in the Countryside: Suburban Sprawl and the Rise of American Environmentalism (2001)

Schulman, Bruce J. The Seventies: The Great Shift in American Culture, Society and Politics (2001)

Wilentz, Sean. The Age of Reagan: A History, 1874-2008 (2009)

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